Chapter 118 Mother Vine
The system rejected Xiang Liangyu's request, which meant that it would not make the journey to the cave easy.
Xiang Liangyu closed the interface, raised his hand and grasped the ice vine that was getting closer and closer. With force of five fingers, the ice vine with a diameter of ten feet suddenly cracked at a speed faster than lightning.
In less than a moment, the ice vines above Xiang Liangyu's head shattered on a large scale, turning into particles as bright as diamonds that scattered down, triggering exclamations from the players behind him.
The group continued to move forward. The deeper they went, the denser and more difficult to destroy the ice vines became. Now they had reached the center of the vine forest. The vitality of the vines here was extremely tenacious and deceptive.
Because the ice vines hanging in the air here are half hollow, like the skin shed by a snake. The surface is a hard layer of ice, but the inside is hollow, which makes it convenient for the vines to move and escape in it.
Xiang Liangyu led the way. All ten ice vines were fake. Someone pulled her clothes from behind and said weakly, "The color of the third one next to it seems a little darker. Could it be..."
She didn't know what these things were. She only knew that the island owner who led the way was smashing them as he walked. Some of them were smashed open and green vines appeared, while others were just ice cubes.
Xiang Liangyu walked in the direction she pointed and punched it. It turned out to be a real ice vine. She was a little surprised and said, "Thank you."
[Island owner's favorability +10. ]
The girl looked very excited and kept saying it was okay.
The Fujilin area looks very simple. Under the guidance of the player, Xiang Liangyu walked all the way to the end, and everyone was unharmed.
But when Xiang Liangyu stepped on something soft and hard, she knew it couldn't be so easy.
As expected, the ground began to crack and expand, and the flexible and twisted vines were the first to break free from the cracks and entangle the players on the ground.
The crowd scattered like birds and beasts. Xiang Liangyu glanced at Chu Li, then grabbed the vine that was reaching out to her and said, "Take them away."
Chu Li was stunned: "My sister, how can I be so capable?"
But Xiang Liangyu had no time to care about it. There were more and more cracks in the ground. The hibernating vine master had awakened and was rising from the ground.
A huge vine as thick as thirty-five people holding hands in a circle rose from the ground. Countless flexible small vines were struggling around the vine, and they could stretch and retract freely, and it would take almost no effort to wipe out all the players here.
Chu Li looked at the vines that were taller than the sky and was so scared that her hair almost stood up. When Xiang Liangyu urged her for the second time, she rushed to the open space in front with trembling legs, leading the players who were not attacked by the vines.
Xiang Liangyu fell to the ground, looked at Quan Shengyan who came over and said, "What is this?"
Quan Shengyan: "A giant mother vine, with endless nutrients in its body, which can feed tens of thousands of daughter vines. It is considered an indigenous small BOSS, with a 2% chance of being triggered."
Xiang Liangyu looked at the player who was rolled up and screamed desperately and said, "Oh, it's the system that did it."
She looked at Quan Shengyan and said, "Let's go and save people."
Xiang Liangyu opened Zhuge Xunzhen's backpack, hoping to find some suitable weapons, but there was only a crumpled map of the Earth inside, with four crooked words written on a blank space on the map: "Occupy the Earth!"
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
She was really convinced.
She closed her backpack and wanted to pick up a branch from the ground when a torch appeared in front of her. Quan Shengyan said, "Take this. Wood creatures are afraid of fire."
Xiang Liangyu was surprised and asked, "Where did you get this out of thin air?"
Quan Shengyan: "The sea cannot control the land. The boss's tools contain all the restraining items for land creatures."
Xiang Liangyu took the torch and frowned as she looked at the vines on the mother vine. These vines were about to strangle the players they caught. Xiang Liangyu rushed forward, intending to step on the twisted vines at the bottom, but found that all the vines were avoiding her.
The other half of the sub-vines were chasing the fleeing player. Quan Shengyan blocked them with a torch and said, "Xiang Liangyu, attack the mother vine!"
Xiang Liangyu looked at the ziteng standing eight feet away from him and felt that what Quan Shengyan said made sense. Although he didn't know why the ziteng was afraid of him, the mother vine would not run away. If he attacked the mother vine, the ziteng would naturally focus on attacking her in order to protect her.
Thinking of this, Xiang Liangyu changed direction and rushed towards the mother vine. However, the closer she got to the mother vine, she discovered that the mother vine was not a vine at all, but a combination of countless plants.
Its surface shell is an impermeable wood leaf, and its body is covered with densely velvety wood leaves.
This plant is famous for its fire-resistant properties. Xiang Liangyu looked at the torch in his hand and threw it to the ground. The torch came into contact with ice and snow and quickly went out and turned into thick smoke.
Xiang Liangyu clenched her fist and smashed towards the mother vine. At this moment, the seemingly extremely soft fur became extremely sharp when it was hit. Although a hole was indeed made in the mother vine by Xiang Liangyu, when she pulled it out, her hands were also full of holes.
The hole created was black and looked empty inside. Just when Xiang Liangyu wanted to get closer to take a closer look, a vine suddenly emerged from the black hole, completely closing the hole and stabbed straight towards Xiang Liangyu.
Xiang Liangyu dodged sideways and picked up the torch which had become a useless stick. At the moment when the sub-vine rushed out at high speed, she stood up and jumped onto the sub-vine, then jumped hard above the mother vine and pierced the mother vine's body with the torch.
Another sub-vine came out from the hole that was stretched tightly shut. Xiang Liangyu kept poking holes in the mother vine, and used the new sub-vines to jump to the middle one after another and grab the roots of the old sub-vines that wanted to hide from them.
The vines were neither thick nor thin, but extremely flexible. Seeing Xiang Liangyu climbing up, they immediately shook off the player who was almost dying and turned back to attack Xiang Liangyu.
When one vine attacks all the vines for help, the players are left behind, and all the sub-vines begin to attack Xiang Liangyu.
Straight stab, back stab, sweep, entanglement, and all kinds of attacks are used.
The mother vine suddenly shook, and when Xiang Liangyu dodged, he found that the sub-vines had become much thicker, and their epidermis either oozed mucus or grew barbs, which looked extremely terrifying.
Xiang Liangyu dodged and weaved among the vines. Attacking with bare hands would definitely be a way to seek death. Not to mention whether the sticky and slippery liquid was poisonous, the hand that had just broken the mother vine was now red and swollen, and purple in the middle.
She looked at the ground. Quan Shengyan had already led the players out of the vine forest and had turned back to attack the mother vine with props.
Xiang Liangyu stepped on the vines surrounding her, and looking down, she saw that the vines below had become entangled with each other, forming a net-like structure that was flying towards her.
In a flash, Xiang Liangyu looked at Quan Shengyan on the ground through the gap in the net. At this time, he had prepared his bow and arrow, with the flaming arrow pointing in her direction.
Xiang Liangyu did not hesitate. When the thorns of the vine under her feet were about to pierce the soles of her shoes, she jumped down. At the same time, Quan Shengyan shot out an arrow, and the sound of it piercing the air was extremely harsh.
Then, the vines under his feet burst into flames in the blink of an eye. Xiang Liangyu walked through the raging fire, stood firmly in the snow, and then rushed forward.
Izumi Shoen took a step back while shooting flaming arrows until the two of them successfully escaped from the Fujibayashi.
But at the critical point, Xiang Liangyu turned around and stabbed the torch in his hand towards the mother vine in front of him. Then he quickly took the bow and arrow from Quan Shengyan's hand and put all the remaining arrows on the bow.
Raise your arm, draw the bow, aim, and shoot.
The moment the torch pierced into the mother vine, before the sub-vine could block the hole, eight flaming arrows came one after another and pierced straight into the hole of the mother vine.
Xiang Liangyu put away the bow, threw it to Quan Shengyan, turned around and looked at the panting player and said, "Let's go, we're just ahead."
As soon as he finished speaking, violent explosions occurred one after another. Thick smoke came out of the broken hole in the mother vine that was towering into the sky. Then irregular bulges of varying sizes began to appear inside its body.
Quan Shengyan turned to look at Xiang Liangyu's back, a little surprised: "How do you know what's inside..."
Xiang Liangyu: "I was just guessing. I thought it would spray out the things I threw in. Let's go quickly, or it will explode on me."
Chu Li looked at the mother vine that had exploded and was extremely shocked: "It can burn, then why didn't you burn just now?"
Xiang Liangyu: "It's wrapped so tightly on the outside, it must be to protect the inside."
Xiang Liangyu leads the way, Quan Shengyan provides a backup, and the players are caught in the middle, feeling extremely nervous.
The inside of the mother vine was dead, and its skin did not burn, but the sub-vines were all burned. Thick smoke formed and the fire limbs were twisted, which was very strange.
The road was surprisingly smooth after that. Not long after they walked, a rift appeared in front of them. Xiang Liangyu took a step back and threw the players one by one. When it came to Chu Li, she tightly grasped Xiang Liangyu's hand and said nervously: "You must throw it accurately!"
Upon hearing this, Xiang Liangyu put Chu Li aside, threw the remaining players over, then picked up Chu Li and Quan Shengyan and jumped over together.
Chu Li was still frightened: "Thank you."
Xiang Liangyu glanced at her and replied, "You're welcome."
On the opposite side of the rift is a rocky slope leading downwards, with no plants or animals. From the highest point you can see the white sea on the other side of the slope.
The sound of the waves was huge, the waves were whiter than snow, and there was a biting sea breeze.
The players looked around: "Where is the cave?"
Xiang Liangyu led the way down the slope. The slope was so steep that there was no way to go down. Some players who had never walked on a steep road looked at the height, walked to Xiang Liangyu with shaking legs, and said with a fearless expression: "Please, please take me down."
The woman was about to cry. Xiang Liangyu prevented more people from coming to find her and taking people down. She picked her up and carried her down the hill at an expressionless but extremely fast speed.
The players behind basically rolled down, but fortunately, Chu Li was no exception. It seemed that some players also asked Quan Shengyan for help, but judging from the results, Quan Shengyan probably refused.
But there was a thick layer of snow underneath, so it wouldn't hurt even if I rolled down.
Xiang Liangyu looked at the huge cave in front of her. It was shaped like a mine, and she even saw a section of railroad sleepers sticking out from inside.
Chu Li couldn't hide his excitement: "Finally I can go home!"
Xiang Liangyu did not respond this time. She had a bad feeling, but when she thought about the message she sent, she thought this might be the system's surrender after being tough.
Thinking about it, Xiang Liangyu said, "Let's go in."
The players were talking to each other, and at this moment they already believed it. Half of them completely believed that the island owner in front of them really wanted to take them home, and the other half were hesitating outside and didn't dare to go in, fearing that they would never get out.
However, Xiang Liangyu didn't care at all. Even Quan Shengyan, who was there to back them up, didn't take any action towards the players who were still standing there. Seeing that they didn't leave, he walked around them and went inside.
Someone gritted his teeth and shouted, "If they wanted to harm us, they would have done it long ago. Never mind. I'm going in!"
Xiang Liangyu turned around when he heard the voice, only to see that there was still one person left at the cave entrance who had not entered.
